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By Aamir Mannan.

Your wedding feature today takes a look at the rings.

Yes, there's the dress, the father of the bride, the adorable page-boy, but a wedding is complete only when that circle is slipped on the fourth finger of the left hand of the bride, thus finalising the event. There has not been, if truth be told, any other more powerful moment. The clergy is now able to pronounce the couple husband and wife.

The unbroken circle is a symbol of eternity, but this is just one of the many shades of cultural meaning that rings have had through the history of marriage. In Roman times, the ring was a token of security, or collateral, to protect the bride-to-be. Icelandic legends hold that when a man passed his hand through a large iron ring to clasp the hand of his bride, a marriage pledge was made.

In the Greek Orthodox church, in the 15th , the man gave the woman an iron ring, to symbolise strength, while the woman gave the man a gold ring, to represent her frag. In the  Orthodox Church, a bride was given a silver ring, while the groom was given a gold one; she was a less valuable being than he.

Ancient Hebrew ceremony required three rings -- one for the girl; one for the man she was to marry, and one for the official witness to the ceremony. The witness was supposed to lead the couple to the

synagogue where the bride wore all three rings, which were joined together under a signet.